Hi,i am pretty new in astrophotography.
My setup is a QHY5II715C color ccd and currently with a small refractor 70mm/350 focal length (small but mine).
I am quite familar with Linux. I first tried with my opensuse leap 15.4 to capture some images wit kstars 3.6.7 stable.
Ekos is capturing the images fine. the viewer shows them in RGB and if i manually save the images in the viewer they are also saved as color Fits.Unluckily the saved fits from the sequence are all monochrome. The file size 1/3 of the manual saved ones.
And Siril treats them as monochrome.

Now i also managed to get kstars running on my Pi 4. (3.6.8 Beta)I hoped that on the Pi it would work. But unluckily exactly the same happened. Settings where stock settings on the PI.

Attached i have some screenshots:
- remmina_Raspi_192.168.188.70_20231024-202019,466030.png shows the ekos setup. I only shot a single image but also with more only monochrome is saved.
- remmina_Raspi_192.168.188.70_20231024-202129,161332.png shows the viewer directly after ekos catched the image. The viewer also shows it as RGB and if i "save as" then a RGB fit is saved
- remmina_Raspi_192.168.188.70_20231024-202322,591941.png shows de different file sizes of the manual and "normal" fit
- remmina_Raspi_192.168.188.70_20231024-203024,259638.png show the info siril is displaying. For me it looks that ekos is really sving in monochrome. siril even refuses to do something with colors with this file. For comparison the manual saved fit file is treated as RGB by siril.

- userdb.sqlite.zip is my kstars db....hope it gives some further insight
- test3_Light_001.zip is the monochrome fit (sorry no stars but this should be a color image..)

I searched in each and every menu in Ekos, indi, kstars. where i can activate/deactivate colors....i did not find anything.
It would be very nice if some one could help me.

Best Regards
Rainer

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